Atos delivers BullSequana X410 supercomputer to Swansea University

Swansea (Wales), London (United kingdom), Paris (France), March ten 2021

Atos now announced that it has signed a deal with Swansea University to deploy its BullSequana X410 supercomputer, constructed on the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU architecture and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking, which will permit academics in Swansea and across Wales to travel ground-breaking research primarily based on state-of-the-art equipment finding out and deep finding out algorithms.

The largest NVIDIA A100 deployments in just Wales, this substantial-overall performance supercomputer types element of Atos’ existing partnership with Supercomputing Wales – an Atos and Dell EMC supercomputing Centre of Excellence partially funded by the European Regional Progress Fund (ERDF) as a result of the Welsh Governing administration.

Section of the ‘AccelerateAI’ initiative, also funded by the European Regional Progress Fund (ERDF) as a result of the Welsh Governing administration, this GPU-accelerated supercomputer will permit research teams with concentrations in arithmetic, engineering, science and medicine across Wales to provide developments in chopping-edge AI research and in industrial applications.

The NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs mounted in just the BullSequana X410 supercomputer are really parallel processors built to increase computing. The integration of up to eight GPUs in just a 2U form element areas this process at the forefront of today’s accelerated computing options, in terms of compute density, overall performance and cost-performance. The supercomputer will also leverage NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand’s quick details all over, very very low latency, and clever In-Community Computing engines, enabling state-of-the-art overall performance for a wide selection of HPC and AI applications that will even further travel Swansea University’s research.

The AI supercomputer will be primarily based at Swansea University’s vitality-efficient Bay Facts Centre, where Atos will keep the products and work carefully with academics to aid deal with their distinct research desires.

Agnès Boudot, Senior Vice President, Head of HPC & Quantum at Atos, stated: “The BullSequana will present scientists across Wales with state-of-the-art hardware to permit new scientific developments on equipment finding out and deep finding out algorithms. As the initially significant-scale deployment of the NVIDIA A100 architecture, we feel this is an thrilling milestone for supercomputing-enabled research in Wales, supporting its ambition to be a globe leader in substantial-overall performance computing as element of the Supercomputing Wales challenge.”

Professor Biagio Lucini, Director of the Swansea Academy of Highly developed Computing at Swansea University, stated: “We are happy that the shipping of this chopping-edge, AI BullSequana X410 supercomputer will empower academics across Wales to travel ahead most likely ground-breaking discoveries. Making on the achievements of the Supercomputing Wales challenge, this really revolutionary products will boost how AI is executed into field and utilized to clear up research issues, although strengthening Wales’ posture as a main supercomputing hub.”

“HPC and AI have come to be the basis on which we know the options to the world’s most intricate and challenging issues,“ stated Rod Evans, EMEA Director for Supercomputing, Higher Education and AI at NVIDIA. “That is why NVIDIA has constructed the world’s most strong and comprehensive AI supercomputing system that delivers the steadiness and overall performance needed for HPC and AI scientists.”

Researchers from other Universities in just the Supercomputing Wales consortium – together with Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Bangor – will have entry to the substantial-overall performance process, assisting to support the country’s ambition to compete globally for research and innovation projects. In collaboration with nearby SMEs, the challenge will also accelerate adoption of AI solutions in Welsh field.

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